Lors de la 80^e Assemblée générale des Nations Unies à New York fin septembre 2025, le Premier ministre belge nouvellement nommé, Bart De Wever, a rejeté la proposition de la Commission européenne d'utiliser les profits des avoirs russes gelés pour soutenir l'Ukraine, déclarant catégoriquement qu'une telle mesure « n'arrivera jamais ». S'adressant aux dirigeants mondiaux à New York, De Wever a déclaré : « Prendre l'argent de Poutine et laisser les risques chez nous. Cela n'arrivera pas, (…)

At the 80^th United Nations General Assembly in New York in late September 2025, Belgium's newly appointed Prime Minister Bart De Wever dismissed the European Commission's proposal to use profits from frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine, declaring flatly that such a move “will never happen.” Standing before global leaders in New York, De Wever said: “Taking Putin's money and leaving the risks with us. That's not going to happen, let me be very clear about that.” He added that such a move (…)

The stupid legacy of the Thai conservatives in language
What do Thaksin Shinawatra, Abhisit Vejjajiva, Suthep Thaugsuban, Prayuth Chan-ocha and Prem Tinsulanonda all have in common?
What they all share is the idiotic way in which their names are spelt in English. It is almost as if there is a conspiracy by Thais to spell names so that all foreigners who do not know Thai will mis-pronounce their names. Then backward Thais can laugh at the ignorant “Farangs”.
What we have to remember is (…)

On 16 November 2025, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) General Secretary Tilvin Silva sat for an interview with the Sunday Observer, commemorating the party's 36^th November Martyrs' Day. He spoke of leaders “who taught us politics, built a Movement for the oppressed, and dedicated their entire lives to that cause” before being “killed” in November 1989. He positioned himself as one who shouldered “responsibility to protect the team, keep their spirits from faltering” during imprisonment. He (…)

The India-Pakistan military escalation following the April 2025 Pahalgam terrorist attacks that killed 26 civilians exposed unbridgeable divisions within India's left. CPI(ML) Liberation maintained an anti-war position whilst India's parliamentary communist parties—the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M)—supported military strikes that non-parliamentary formations explicitly opposed. For the mainstream left, electoral calculations and alliance (…)